Pierre Antoine Muraccioli

Pierre Antoine Muraccioli (born June 4, 1944 in Atamatavia , Madagascar ) is a French singer . He bears the stage name Antoine .

Life

After training up to civil engineering at the renowned École Centrale Paris (graduated in 1966), he worked as an architect for the French building ministry. He started singing in the 1960s and then performed with long hair and floral shirts as part of the hippie movement . His texts were critical and were intended to point out grievances. In France in 1966 the album Les Elucubrations caused a sensation, in which Antoine propagated "long hair". Shortly thereafter, the French singer Johnny Hallyday responded with the title Cheveux longs, idées courtes ('Long hair, short mind'), which polarized youth culture at the time.

Songs

Antoine was particularly successful as a singer of hits and protest songs, which he also performed in English, Italian and German versions. Well-known songs were among others:

• "Et Moi et Moi et Moi"
• "Pietre"
• "Un Éléphant Me Regarde"
• "La Tramonata"
• "Taxi"
• "Ra ta ta"
• "Qu'est-ce que tu as mis dans le Café"

In Germany he became known with the song: "Hallo, bonjour, salut" , Ai, Ai, Ai, that's one life and rain falls on our city .

Web links

• Pierre Antoine Muraccioli in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Photos by the artist
• Brief portrait

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Photos and songs ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.